2009/11/24 Alan Mintz <alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net>: > At 2009-11-24 01:47, andrzej zaborowski wrote: >>... >>I have heard on IRC that Potlatch bends the API slightly to get these >>images. However, the only area Yahoo has better resolution than z=1 >>is the US where the imager comes from another source (calles USGS I >>think) that can be used as a WMS directly so there's little gain from >>being able to get it through Yahoo. > > Can you be more specific? I can use the "Terraserver Urban" imagery down to > the 25m zoom level, but only in some urban areas (not the area I'm > currently working on). The "Terraserver aerial" imagery won't load below > 100m zoom level, and is too low-res to be useful for detailed mapping. Are > you saying there's another source of 25m zoom imagery, or a way to get the > imagery that Yahoo uses, other than through Yahoo?
Apparently I was wrong and Yahoo is not using USGS or not USGS alone in the US because like Frederik indicated there are places Yahoo has coverage where USGS doesn't have. I may have misinterpreted something that was said on irc. Cheers _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
